Archives

12/30/15: Words to Live By: Wisdom on politics and life that got me through the year
09/28/15: The Future Doesn't Work: The Utopian ideal may be a 21st/sup> century nightmare
07/06/15: Beating the Enemies of Civilization
12/08/14: How Barack Obama Became the Anti-President
09/08/14: I, too peered into Putin's eyes: How paranoid he can get
06/17/14: Is America in Decline? Not So Fast
07/29/13: The Wages of a Phony Recovery
07/09/13: The City Is the Future and It Does Work
05/01/13: The Economy Is Not Advancing --- It's Going Backward: Obama administration is more inclined to PR than hard-headed pragmatism in dealing with unemployment
02/28/13: How We Can End Our Modern-Day Depression
01/02/13: The 'fiscal cliff' was scary? Guess what's coming next!
11/06/12: Obama's foreign policy is undercut U.S. credibility in Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and across the Middle East
04/23/12: The evil of two lessers
03/13/12: We still need a recovery from this recovery. Here's how to accomplish it
01/17/12: How We Can Reignite America's Can-Do Spirit
12/27/11: As Obama Fails to Lead, American Dream Is Called Into Question
02/15/11: The recession is officially over but unemployment remains high. Here's why
02/02/11: What Today's Leaders Can Learn From Reagan
12/01/10: The Danger of a Global Double Dip Recession Is Real
10/21/10: The problems only begin with the economy: What's broken and how it can be fixed
10/14/10: We don't have a moral obligation to do what is impossible
09/15/10: U.S. Role in Israeli-Palestinian Talks Is a Problem
08/22/10: Unemployment Rate Is Worse Than It Looks07/26/10: Pre-requisites for a two-state solution07/19/10: Obama's Anti-Business Policies Are Our Economic Katrina07/06/10: Obama Is Barely Treading Water06/28/10: The international community has no idea how to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon06/21/10: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur05/19/10: Public Employee Unions as they are severely hurt America05/03/10: Congress' Role in the Financial Crisis04/13/10: 5 Ways to Keep America Great: Americans are used to being at the top. Here's how we stay there12/25/09: Keep Congress Away From the Federal Reserve: The Fed threw us a rope; we don't want Congress holding it10/14/09: The country's been losing jobs for long enough. Something needs to be done  now
07/15/09: Nine Reasons the Economy is Not Getting Better
06/10/09: What Obama and his advisors won't  or refuse  to grasp about Israel and the Muslim world
04/20/09: Israel, Despite Hamas Rockets and Media Scorn, Must Not Compromise on Peace or Terror
01/19/09: Reaffirming the Right of Israel to Exist
06/02/08: 7 Fixes for a Market Failure
04/18/08: The Case for Housing Help
04/01/08: Obama's double standard on Rev. Wright
03/28/08: The world will not answer these questions
03/14/08: The Second-Look Primary
02/21/08: The Haunted Housing Market
02/12/08: Super Tuesday raises questions about our selection process
02/04/08: Preventing a Panic
01/04/08: What they should have said12/28/07: Let's put it to a vote12/21/07: The Credit Crisis Grows12/14/07: Has Russia left the West?11/14/07: Hillary hits a pothole11/02/07: Getting beyond race10/22/07: The Wrong Time to Rile Turkey10/19/07: The yellow-light economy10/12/07: Family-unfriendly policies09/26/07: A Failure of Politics09/21/07: More risky business09/12/07: The Energy Emergency07/28/07: The case for surveillance07/21/07: A crisis of confidence06/20/07: What to like about Mike05/14/07: Too soon to leave05/02/07: The Primary Experiment04/18/07: Bad Options on Iran04/02/07: Rudy Runs the Rapids03/27/07: Energy to burn03/14/07: No reason for jitters03/08/07: From bad to unthinkable02/22/07: Moscow's Soul Man01/24/07: From bad to worse01/08/07: Words to live by12/20/06: America's high anxiety12/12/06: The threat from within12/06/06: The Mullah menace11/22/06: The gift of giving11/09/06: Waiting for war in Gaza10/30/06: Our cheating hearts09/19/06: How to play hardball09/13/06: End the Mexican Standoff 04/18/06: Fairness and the Future 04/04/06: The diminution of the mission of a still-great university? 01/30/06: Moscow's mad gamble 01/17/06: A Giant's Growing Pains 12/21/05: A man of parts 11/14/05: The Greenspan Effect11/07/05: Foul-ups  Not Felonies10/24/05: The time for evenhandedness has been washed away in blood10/17/05: A Hang-Tough Nation10/03/05: Classroom Revolution09/19/05: Investing in Tomorrow09/12/05: Fixing What's Broken08/22/05: Don't Look Now, But...07/18/05: Europe's Two Worlds06/22/05: A Nightmare Scenario06/13/05: Land of Opportunity 06/06/05: A Second Chance 05/30/05: Right Down the Middle? 05/23/05: Saving the Fairies 05/09/05: Home, Sweet Home 04/22/05: We're sending billions of dollars to countries that use a good chunk of them to promote anti-American ideas 04/05/05: Good Things Take Time 03/07/05: When will Israel finally say enough is enough? 03/02/05: Washington's toughest job 02/08/05: Cracking down on Caracas 01/11/05: In America, what price glory? 01/03/05: What they should have said12/14/04: A devil's brew at the U.N. 11/11/04: For a saner public discourse 10/27/04: The real truth about Iraq 10/19/04: An election all about values10/13/04: The politics of cynicism 08/10/04: A little matter of substance 07/15/04: Looking evil right in the eye07/06/04: Life in the rearview mirror 06/14/04: Why Reagan meant so much to us 06/09/04: In for the grim long haul 06/02/04: Get ready for that October surprise 05/24/04: What we learned from the Brown decision was not what we expected 05/17/04: A bit of perspective, please 05/10/04: Corporate welfare  for foreign corporations!?05/04/04: A hero's parting message 04/20/04: A tangled web, unraveled: How a critical aid program for Iraq was undermined by greed and cynical insider deals 04/16/04: The high price of hindsight04/11/04: Getting real about gas prices03/16/04: Dems demagoguing protectionism adds up to economic nonsense03/02/04: A truly cruel college squeeze02/10/04: Fixing what's broken 01/13/04: Policing the corporate suites 11/25/03: Slowly but surely in Iraq 11/12/03: Holding their feet to the fire 10/29/03: Graffiti On History's Walls 09/04/03: All work and no play 08/29/03: Facing the other threat among us07/23/03: Making odds on a recovery 07/15/03: A Kremlin conversation06/10/03: Welcome to Sue City, U.S.A. 05/05/03: America's next critical test 04/22/03: The challenge of success 04/15/03: Shape up or step aside 04/08/03: The latest in reality TV is …04/02/03: Chirac and Saddam's thugs are two of a kind03/26/03: War by new rules 03/05/03: The high price of waiting 02/14/03: Needed: fast fiscal action02/03/03: Clear and compelling proof01/24/03: Midnight for Baghdad01/14/03: They should have said...12/24/02: Who finances the fanatics?12/19/02: Put-up or shut-up time12/09/02: Sheep, wolves, and reality11/21/02: Curing the uncommon cold11/12/02: Everybody has the right to be wrong … but the Dems have been abusing the privilege11/05/02: Force vs. fanaticism10/30/02: Land of the sinking sun10/22/02: No more cat and mouse 10/15/02: And pigs will fly10/07/02: A shameful contagion09/26/02: Calling a madman's number09/23/02: Our rainbow underclass09/13/02: Why America must act09/04/02: After bubbles, a double dip?08/20/02: No time for equivocation08/06/02: No time for politics07/30/02: Getting off the dime07/17/02: What scandal cannot dim06/18/02: Time to crack down: Where is the outrage?06/05/02: The next new thing04/30/02: Roller-coaster nation04/25/02: A critical tipping point 04/15/02: Israel's endgame will impact the free world03/21/02: In the face of pure evil03/14/02: A man on a mission 03/07/02: Land of the Sinking Sun 02/12/02: Speaking truth about energy 01/15/02: Putting our house in order01/12/02: Talking points for 2002 12/24/01: The shape of things to come12/11/01: Finally, a clarity of vision12/04/01: Apocalypse now11/26/01: The Big Apple's core11/06/01: What it will take to win 10/22/01: Getting the mayor's message10/08/01: A remedy for repair10/01/01: A question of priorities09/26/01: Our mission, our moment09/11/01: Running the asylum 08/29/01: Hail, brave consumer06/14/01: Blackouts --- or blackmail?06/01/01: A time to reap --- and sow05/25/01: A question of confidence05/18/01: A question of confidence05/04/01: Making the grade04/26/01: The caribou conundrum04/19/01: Chinese boomerang03/27/01: The man of the moment03/20/01: The Fed must be bold03/15/01: Japan on the brink03/01/01: Rethinking the next war02/09/01: The education paradox01/08/01: How the bottom fell out01/03/01: Quipping in the new year12/20/00: A time for healing11/13/00: The need for legitimacy10/30/00: Arafat's bloody cynicism10/18/00: Arafat torches peace10/03/00: A great step backward09/08/00: The Perfect Storm08/29/00: Don't blow the surplus08/15/00: Voting for grown-ups08/01/00: Arafat's lack of nerve07/17/00: Can there be a new peace between old enemies? Or will new enemies regress to an old state of war? 07/11/00: A time to celebrate06/19/00: A bit of straight talk06/08/00: Using hate against Israel05/26/00: Is the Federal Reserve trigger-happy? 04/18/00: Tensions on the 'Net04/13/00: A paranoid power03/10/00: Fuel prices in the red zone02/25/00: Web wake-up call02/18/00: Back to the future01/21/00: Whistling while we work 01/11/00: Loose lips, fast quips12/23/99: The times of our lives12/14/99: Hey, big spender11/18/99: Fountain of Youth 11/04/99: An impossible partner10/14/99: A nation divided10/05/99: India at center stage09/21/99: Along with good cops, we need a better probation system 09/08/99: Though plundered and confused, Russia can solve its problems 08/31/99: The military should spend more on forces and less on facilities 08/05/99: Squandering the surplus07/06/99: More than ever, America's unique promise is a reality 06/24/99: The time has come to hit the brakes on affirmative action06/15/99: America should take pride in honoring its responsibilities06/02/99: The Middle Kingdom shows its antagonistic side 05/11/99: Technology's transforming power is giving a lift to everything05/04/99: The big game gets bigger04/30/99: On Kosovo, Russia talked loudly and carried a small stick04/21/99: No time to go wobbly04/13/99: The Evil of two lessers